First of all, Jennifer Lopez really needs to stop pissing off her makeup artist. Her makeup at the Oscars was AWFUL. No one – and I mean NO ONE – should wear pink eyeshadow.

Anyway, this story is just for the people who want to relive the glory days of Bennifer 1.0. When Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez were together, they were a glorious mess. He was gambling and uncomfortable, and she was trying too hard to make it work. She styled him like a Ken Doll. He got lap dances from strippers. She was married to her second husband when they met. Ben actually worked hard to win her. They did hilariously awkward interviews together. Ben rubbed her butt in a music video. It was glorious time. In the past five years or so, Ben has given lots of interviews about his regrets in the Bennifer 1.0 years. It’s still on his mind, and (just my opinion) some of his interviews could be read as particularly insulting to J.Lo. He really regrets that whole situation.

So, Ben and J.Lo were both at the Oscars on Sunday. Ben did not walk the carpet and he was only there to present Best Director. I’m pretty sure he came alone – Jennifer Garner was not there. I think J.Lo’s date was her manager Benny. And then this happened:

For some celebrities, attending the Oscars means navigating their way through a minefield of exes. For Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez, however, it felt like old times.

During the 87th Annual Academy Awards, the exes had a brief, off-camera reunion during a commercial break. After Laura Poitras’s Citizenfour won the award for Best Documentary Feature, Affleck walked over to Lopez, who was seated in the front row. According to ABC News, Affleck whispered something into Lopez’s ear, and she playfully smacked his arm. After reuniting with Lopez, Affleck moved down the aisle and whispered something in Best Actor nominee Bradley Cooper’s ear. The American Sniper star didn’t slap Affleck, however.

[From E! News]

Sigh… I mess them!!!!! They were so much fun. I’d like to think this was just a little flirtation – after all, Jennifer has said that while she has regrets about that time, she still cares about Ben and wishes him well. I like that he went over to her and told her some joke or something and they got to have a moment.

Oh, and by the way – we’re pretty sure that Jennifer is back with Casper Smart. She’s just keeping it really quiet these days. I guess we have to give her credit for being self-aware enough to feel ashamed for going back to him.

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PS… Remember when Bennifer 1.0 went to the Oscars together? He was so ORANGE!!!

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New mom Kelly Clarkson radiates the latest cover of PEOPLE with her 8-month-old daughter River Rose and opens up about her first non-holiday album since 2011, Piece by Piece, and the joys of motherhood.

“My whole life took a big 180,” Clarkson shares. “I never thought I was going to be a mom, so it’s very much changed my world in the most awesome way.”

Although busy, Clarkson has a happy family life with husband Brandon Blackstock, 38, their daughter and her stepkids Savannah, 13, and Seth, 8.

“I love what I do, but I feel like I relied on my career a lot for my self-worth. And now I’m more than that,” says the Grammy Award-winning singer. “I’m a mother and a wife and have this whole other thing going on.”

Since welcoming her first child — who Clarkson calls “the happiest baby on the planet” — the American Idol alum, 32, has found peace.

“I have a certain level of peace I didn’t know was going to come with it,” she shares.

And it sounds like motherhood has healed some of the wounds from her own parents’ divorce.

“My best friend always says, ‘You just want to create the family you never had.’ I might be doing that,” Clarkson adds. “In defense of my family, it happens. People fall out of love, and people go separate ways. People are human. I’ve accomplished a lot, but I guess the biggest success I want is that whenever I die people will say, ‘She was so successful as a mother, and as a wife.’ That’s kind of my big goal.”

Lucky kids!

Britney Spears took her two sons, Sean and Jayden, to meet Shaun White at a snowing event in Los Angeles. The two boys didn’t only get to hang out with Shaun White, but they also made another friend — a snake!

Britney took to Instagram to show off a couple pictures of all the family fun they were having:

“Took the boys to #AirStyleLA today to hang with some snowboarders, skiers &… snakes. Lol #SundayFunday.”

It looks like the boys had a great time! They grow up so fast, don’t they?

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I had zero expectations for Lady Gaga’s musical tribute to The Sound of Music at the Oscars. Okay, that’s not true. My expectations were lower than low. I thought for sure Gaga would come out and sing those classic songs to a dance beat while draped in ham. But 30 seconds into Gaga’s performance, I had the same stunning realization that everyone else had: Gaga was killing it (in a good way). Just in case you want to relive it:

Her performance was so good, even Julie Andrews was taken aback. Her performance was so good, even my mom (an avowed Gaga-Hater) called Gaga the best part of the night. But still, there were some people who still did not believe. People like… Shonda Rhimes?! Shonda tweeted during the Oscars:

That was not okay. I mean, Idina is there. She is right there. RIGHT THERE. And oh dear God, Julie had to hear that. #Oscars2015

— shonda rhimes (@shondarhimes) February 23, 2015

If you go and look at all of the comments on that tweet, you can see that Shonda got a lot of heat from her followers. And I would imagine some of Gaga’s little monsters also yelled at her too. So on Monday, Shonda replied to one tweeter:

@TinoBeano I probably did miss the point. Everyone else loved it. That’s okay.

— shonda rhimes (@shondarhimes) February 23, 2015

Eh. I like that she didn’t backtrack and delete the tweet or give some sort of half-assed apology. I imagine Shonda just shrugged and thought, “meh, everybody’s different.” So she didn’t like Gaga’s performance. It’s not the end of the world.

Incidentally, whatever goodwill Gaga might have accrued with her Oscar performance will be quickly used up by Gaga’s same-old famewhore shtick, I’m sure. Look at her NSFW post-Oscar party dress if you don’t believe me.

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#FBF had to post this pic also bc this angle is everything!!!!!

A photo posted by Kim Kardashian West (@kimkardashian) on Feb 20, 2015 at 11:14am PST

Here’s an Instagram from Kim Kardashian from several days ago. It’s actually a throwback photo from a pre-Grammy event that we covered a few weeks ago – go here to see the original photos. This brings me to a Star Magazine story in last week’s issue. Long story short, Star Mag claims Kim pays a graphic artist $100,000 a year just to Photoshop her Instagrams. What do you think? Clearly, Kim’s Instagrams are Photoshopped, but does she do it herself or does she pay someone to do it?

Meanwhile, Kim tweeted some stuff during the Oscars and as it turned out, she didn’t even leave her house on Sunday night. The Daily Mail said Kim had finally gotten a much-desired invite to the VF Oscar party – maybe she did, maybe she didn’t. All I know is that I actually missed seeing Kim at some of the parties. I’m fully admitting that Kim’s presence would have livened things up! So, why didn’t Kim leave her house? She was… getting a piano lesson?

She’s got better things to do! Kim Kardashian decided to try her hand at a new musical hobby instead of attending the Academy Awards or any Oscar afterparties, as she usually does.

“Just finished my piano lesson in time to watch the Oscars’ red carpet!!!” Kardashian, 34, tweeted on Sunday, Feb. 22.

North West’s mom also had a special treat in mind for her husband Kanye West. “I’m going to surprise Kanye by learning one of his songs!” she gushed to her 29 million followers. “He’s hardly on social media so he won’t know I’m tweeting this lol.”

When asked by a Twitter user if she’ll be making an appearance, she responded: “I have no one to watch North so we’re watching together in our pj’s! Next year for sure!”

[From Us Weekly]

You can read the rest of Kim’s tweets here. Incidentally, she and North left New York in the middle of NYFW last week, and Kanye flew on to London. I kind of think Kim didn’t got to any Oscar parties was because Kanye wasn’t there to dress her. Right?

Ugh I hate falling sleep with all of my make up on!

A photo posted by Kim Kardashian West (@kimkardashian) on Feb 24, 2015 at 8:28am PST

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Another day, another Benedict Cumberbatch round-up. You know how we discussed Benedict and Sophie’s rather obvious paparazzi photoshoot, presumably for Jaguar? The photoshoot was done days before the Oscars – go here to see. An Englishman and his knocked up wife… and a sun-dappled Jaguar. Making out while pumping gas, a tender embrace whilst watching the sunset. Well, E! News has a write-up of the photos, and it’s sort of hilarious. “Sources” tell E! News that “they could not keep their hands off of one another” and “Benedict looked completely in love, he only had eyes for Sophie.” For the love of God.

There’s also this MTV video from the Oscar red carpet – Benedict is actually really cute here and I like his response to the Doctor Strange question. Is his Strange going to be American or British? I hope British. Because I worry about Bendy’s American accent.

Next up: Ed Sheeran talked a little bit more about how Bendy was supposed to star in his music video for “Sing.” This is not the first time Sheeran has claimed that Bendy was originally going to do a music video, but this is the first time Sheeran has talked about the concept for the Cumber.

Ed Sheeran has revealed he’d lined up Benedict Cumberbatch to star in his video for Sing. Breakdancing. The 24-year-old hitmaker was planning to have his actor pal busting his moves ‘in a karaoke bar with a load of Korean dudes’ – but the idea never quite came in to fruition.

‘We had a few conversations about it, some dinner – we ate roast chicken. A conversation was about as far as it got,’ Sheeran revealed this morning on Nick Grimshaw’s BBC Radio 1 Breakfast Show. ‘I’ll find a better idea and approach him with it, but he’s Oscar nominated now, I don’t know if he’s up for dancing around with Koreans in a music video,’ he added.

[From Metro]

That actually would have been a cute concept video. And it probably would #BreaktheInternet and Tumblr would have a meltdown. Oh well.

And finally, Benedict and TIG got nominated for lots of Empire Awards. He’ll be up against Eddie Remayne again though.

This moment is SO PERFECT… We just don’t know how to caption it! #love #oscars #married #benedictcumberbatch #sophiehunter #oscars2015 @theacademy

A photo posted by HELLO! magazine (@hellomaguk) on Feb 22, 2015 at 6:09pm PST

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I don’t know if E.L. James got a stylist for the Fifty Shades of Grey promotional tour, or if that stylist was paid by the studio, but someone was totally helping her. E.L. was really well turned out for the tour, even wearing flattering Jenny Packham gowns for two major events. James is a pill, for sure, and she’s delusional about the quality of her franchise and yes, she’s totally drunk with power. But I don’t have a problem with James being seen as fashionista-writer and a celebrity in her own right. So I have no problem with the idea that James wants an invite to this year’s Met Gala. Why not?

“Fifty Shades of Grey” author E.L. James is angling to attend Anna Wintour’s ultra-exclusive Met Gala in May. Multiple sources tell Page Six that the writer of the S&M opus has not scored an invitation from Vogue and is asking designers and fashionable friends to help her get a ticket.

“With the success of the ‘Fifty Shades’ movie, she feels this is her moment,” said a source, adding, “She wasn’t invited by Vogue, so her representatives are asking around … to find someone who has a table to invite her to the gala.”

Meanwhile, “Fifty Shades” star Dakota Johnson, who is featured in Vogue’s February issue, is assumed to be a guest. Our source added: “It’s likely that Dakota will be going, and James wants to be at the gala, too. ‘Fifty Shades’ is her creation.”

Tickets to the coveted springtime fête thrown by the Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute cost $25,000 last year for those not on the official invite list. Designers, moguls and brands can pay up to $250,000 for a table at the Vogue-orchestrated affair, as of 2014, but the prices can go up. This year’s gala is themed “China: Through the Looking Glass,” and will be co-chaired by Hong Kong retail king Silas Chou, along with Yahoo boss Marissa Mayer, Jennifer Lawrence and Chinese actress Gong Li.

[From Page Six]

Hells to the yes on Gong Li!!!! I love Gong Li. And Bedhead will be happy about J-Law co-hosting too. The Met Gala is still months away, although it is the biggest fashion red carpet that we have to look forward to post-Oscars. I’m actually thinking that the Met Gala will be a much bigger event than this year’s Oscar red carpet. And yes, E.L. James should attend if she wants to go. Why not? They let Kim Kardashian come. They let Kate Bosworth come. They let every C-list Fashion Girl come. And if worse comes to worse, couldn’t E.L. simply buy a table?

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Elvis Presley’s granddaughter Riley Keough’s #wedding photos are jaw-droppingly beautiful:http://t.co/KJ9LRgzskh pic.twitter.com/Bezbp1I8gm

— HELLO! (@hellomag) February 24, 2015

Earlier this month, Riley Keough married a stuntman, Ben Smith-Petersen, in the middle of the week. The whole thing had the vibe of a spur-of-the-moment thing, only I don’t think it was. Like, Riley planned on getting married on a Wednesday. She hired photographers and got a pretty dress and sold the photos to Hello. Maybe Wednesday weddings will be the newest thing?

In any case, Hello Mag published the wedding photos – go here to see. Her long-sleeved dress was by Delphine Manivet. Riley told Hello, “I wanted the dress to be simple and long sleeve and made of lace. Delphine made exactly what I wanted. I’m not very flashy, I wanted it to be very simple.” She also says she barely wore any makeup (hippie!) and wanted to wear her hair down. The wedding took place at the Calistoga Ranch in Napa Valley and guests included Zoe Kravitz, Cara Delevingne and Kristen Stewart (and Kristen’s plus-one, Alicia Cargile).

Anyway, Ben is cute, right? They met while Riley was filming Mad Max – he was a stuntman on the film, and that’s where Riley befriended Zoe Kravitz too. I figured you would to see the wedding pics because everyone loves wedding photos! I think Riley’s dress is really pretty and I think Riley is really pretty too – she’s only 25! I wonder if she’ll be knocked up with Elvis’s great-grandchildren soon.

FIRST LOOK! #RileyKeough‘s dreamy wedding pics are in, and we have the first look! http://t.co/kETrzfEKaq pic.twitter.com/CxgMyWmd1Q

— HELLO! US (@hellomagUS) February 24, 2015

Coolest wedding ever? Elvis Presley’s granddaughter Riley Keough had a star-studded ceremony! http://t.co/RpEuhBJN3K pic.twitter.com/jb7WyWGzTG

— EntertainmentTonight (@etnow) February 24, 2015

Photos courtesy of Hello Magazine, Twitter.

I’ve still got plenty of feelings about what happened at the Oscars, especially in the Best Actor category. Michael Keaton was my candidate of choice. He and Eddie Redmayne both won Globes, and the category became a dead heat between two worthy competitors. As everyone knows, Eddie Redmayne snagged the SAG and the BAFTA and ended up winning the Oscar. Earlier in the weekend, Keaton nabbed an Independent Spirit Award, which must have been a big confidence booster. So his loss was sad even though Eddie’s speech was adorable.

I debated whether to cover this story, but it’s all over the place, so why not? Keaton had his speech prepared (as one does) and in hand when the envelope opened. As Eddie bounded up to the stage, Keaton casually attempted to tuck his notecard into his inner suit pocket. Now that moment is an internet meme. Get ready for your heart to burst open and fly away in a bird formation with this Vine video:

Yeah, this sucks, but we’re only speculating here. Maybe Keaton was tucking a handkerchief or his ever present pack of gum away. No? Let’s get real then. Keaton isn’t into “false humility“ and wanted to win. He promised an amazing speech with “weeping, gushing, phony, and obnoxious” qualities. The speech is still floating around out there. This outcome is typical of what would happen in Birdman, isn’t it?

I do feel awful for adding to Keaton’s humiliation, but the way I see it, Keaton wins no matter what. He carried Birdman, which won multiple categories. He’s led a career full of blockbusters and indies. He often takes time away from Hollywood. He only works when he wants to. Basically, he’s living the dream. And he’s Batman. (No disrespect to Ben Affleck!)

Anyway Keaton was an excellent sport despite losing his most coveted honor. He hugged all over David Oyelowo and posed with Alejandro Inarritu. Keaton went on to attend the Vanity Fair party after the ceremony. If I were him, moping would have taken priority over partying with co-stars.

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Here are some photos from last night’s Elle Style Awards in London. This is Elle UK, the same magazine that trolls the Dragonflies about Tom Hiddleston’s possible wedding and baby announcements (he’s not getting married nor is he having a baby, as far as I know). Much like the American “fashion awards” shows, pretty much everyone who shows up gets an award. But there were some interesting fashion moments too. My favorite (I KNOW!) was actually Cara Delevingne in this black Vivienne Westwood. Shockingly conservative dress for Cara, and her hair and makeup are on-point. What in the world?! Cara also won Breakthrough Actress. For some reason.

Lindsay Lohan came out because she’s SO SICK you guys. She had to hospitalized and everything. Now she’s back to being crackie at random events. I would imagine she wasn’t even really invited to the Elle event, but they didn’t feel like turning her away. The fishnet panel on this gown is… odd.

Taylor Swift won woman of the year at the Elle UK awards. Her dress is straight off the runway, a Julien Macdonald Fall 2015 gown. I feel like she doesn’t do dark green all that often? This feels unusual. And it’s a good look for her too. I especially like her hair.

Jourdan Dunn – I don’t know, maybe Versace? Perhaps. I feel like she should have gone either/or with this look. Either she shows off her girls OR her legs, not both.

Diane Kruger won Elle’s Film Actress of the Year. She wore this petal pink Chanel spring 2015 Couture. She’s Diane and she almost always kills it. Love it.

Alexa Chung in what looks like a sister-wife dress. I’m consistently amazed that she’s considered a fashionista or style icon because almost every time I see her on a red carpet, she’s dressed like an overgrown toddler.

I might have saved the best for last! Here’s Gwendoline Christie wearing a CAPE designed by her boyfriend Giles Deacon. If you’re over 6 feet tall and you’re known for kicking ass and taking named on Game of Thrones, you get your boyfriend to design special capes just for you.

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